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@julesbl @sebastian @PaulaToThePeople @MikeElgan I’m mostly joking about how stock-market-focused capitalism heavily incentivizes looking good for the current quarter, then bailing out before people outside realize you did it by selling off all the buildings and signing extortionate leases for those same buildings. Or by laying off all the people who actually make the product the company sells. Etc.

When the lack of good training data becomes a problem, the current heads will bail out before it becomes public knowledge how bad the situation is. Or they’ll be “fired” with hundreds of millions of dollars in severance. They’re incentivized to not care.

@julesbl @sebastian @PaulaToThePeople @MikeElgan A future? That sounds like a problem for whoever is in charge later! The people in charge now will have already made their money and power wrecking everything by then.

@nunesgh I’m not looking for any solution. The way my area handles voting is reliable, produces auditable paper records, and it has strong anonymity. It’s composed of simple parts which interact in simple ways, making the whole system easy to reason about. It’s not perfect, but it’s not even in the top thirty problems related to voting in the US.

Any system which allows an individual ballot to be checked after it enters the ballot box is inherently *not anonymous*. It is pseudonymous at best.

@ithoughtisawa2 @jordan @briankrebs As long as I can verify my vote while it’s still non-anonymous (because it’s in my hand), what are the attacks?

Ballot box stuffing? That would take collusion of like eight poll workers and any voters who happen to be in the polling place at the time.

Discarding votes from the ballot boxes? That would take even more, since extra people show up to help with the count.

Altering ballots? Impractical with machine-printed ballots.

@jordan @briankrebs There absolutely is tech which does this already. In my area, we vote with two machines.

The first accepts a blank ballot, shows the races on a big touchscreen (and headphone jack for the blind), then prints your selections on the ballot. The printing is human-readable, so sighted people can verify selections. Not sure how blind voters are expected to be able to verify.

The printed ballot is then fed into the second machine over the ballot box. It uses OCR to recognize the printing and tally votes.

When polls close, the ballots are hand-counted once. If the results agree with the second machine, they’re done. If they disagree, there are hand recounts.

@philvuchetich Not sure on the Google account front.

On the password manager topic, it depends on what they need to sync with. For storing passwords locally and syncing to Macs, Apple’s included password manager is good.

@masek The reason is macOS sends the original digital bitstream via digital audio outputs such as TOSLINK, HDMI, even AirPlay to an AirPort Express with digital out. This guarantees the data is identical to the source data up to the point it hits a DAC. It’s a pro A/V thing, admittedly less convenient for people who don’t need that bit-for-bit guarantee.

Incidentally, most displays designed to work with Macs do audio as a USB audio interface with the volume control on the analog side. They also do brightness adjustments via USB.

@bovaz @aeva @dalias @datenwolf Industry can be better, but I once had to get three competitive quotes from approved vendors (and no, purchasing wouldn’t tell me who the approved vendors were, since that’s the kind of question an unapproved vendor would ask!) and follow up repeatedly for about six months before I could get approval to buy a $20 thumb drive to reimage a failed server.

@skinnylatte Paramedics wheel a woman into the ER with half her arm missing after a traumatic amputation and the doctor says “Well, it’s a start, but I’d like you to lose a little more weight.“

@whitequark @0xabad1dea @hypha And creeptography is only really used for creeptocurrencies and other blokechain nonsense.

@MissConstrue @pulpandpaper Of note: the proposed restrictions are on the service for the phone. That is, the FCC is proposing the telco carry out ID verification and so on before allowing the phone onto their network. Getting a disposable phone now doesn’t protect against this.

This could mildly inhibit certain types of text spam, but as you mentioned, wouldn’t affect robocalls at all.

@alice @tompearce49 Peacock mantis shrimp are pretty widely considered deserving of their initials.

@bruce @MRutenberg @mattblaze @alice I think he meant how wasps will go out of their way to kill bees which aren’t harming or competing with them in any way.

@tompearce49 @alice Yes. An animal with three names of other animals, all of which it isn’t. Rude before you even meet one.

@jschauma At least it was released with a known mitigation. No idea offhand what the esp4, esp6, and rxrpc modules are used for, though.

@tinker You don’t say …

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@Virginicus @mcnado Depends. In an enclosed space with hard walls, the ricochets end up going *everywhere*.

@matth @eff The text of the bill (lines 820-824):

> An individual is considered to be accessing the website from this state if the individual is actually located in the state, regardless of whether the individual is using a virtual private network, proxy server, or other means to disguise or misrepresent the individual's geographic location to make it appear that the individual is accessing a website from a location outside this state.

So any sort of traffic proxy is in scope. Using the proxy doesn’t appear to be prohibited (i.e, the person in Utah doesn’t seem to be violating the law), but if the site accepts the traffic and the user is actually in Utah, the site is violating the law. The uncertainty is the goal.

@davep @tinker Yeah, it feels like I’m constantly having to find new ways to convince search engines I only want results which contain an exact error message. Not something *close to* the message, but the exact words which I put in quotes and added ‘exact:’ in front of and added forty -<synonym> constraints after.

@mrose @ProPublica That’s difficult to predict. Back in 2011, Super Bowl 45 was held in Arlington, TX. The city took on a lot of debt to fund a new stadium, widen streets, and a lot more. Then immediately before the event, the city basically froze over, and that region of Texas doesn’t have good infrastructure to handle icy roads. People spent on hotels, but that was about it. Other businesses didn’t see any significant boost in spending.

The World Cup is during the summer, so no freezing, but most of the areas which will be hosting are likely to be in severe drought conditions. Wildfires are likely.